Usenet Statistics (1997/03/16 - 1997/03/16)

Average daily rate: 484.61 Mb, 109617 articles

• Top 20 feeding sites:
  • by volume
  • by article count
• Top 20 newsgroups:
  • by volume
  • by article count
• Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies:
  • by volume
  • by article count
• Average volume and article count:
  • by day
  • by hour
  • by weekday

Top 20 feeding sites by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	354.51	73.15
2	uunet	89.48	18.47
3	news-out.internetmci.com	40.59	8.38
4	newsmaster	0.02	0.00
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0.00	0.00

Top 20 feeding sites by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	news.webspan.net	68546	62.53
2	uunet	38580	35.20
3	news-out.internetmci.com	2486	2.27
4	newsmaster	4	0.00
5	TOTAL-SIZE	0	0.00

Top 20 newsgroups by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	14.72	3.04
2	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	12.72	2.62
3	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	10.01	2.06
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	7.97	1.64
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	7.54	1.56
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.exhibitionism	5.94	1.22
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.pre-teen	5.78	1.19
8	alt.binaries.games	4.95	1.02
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	3.96	0.82
10	alt.binaries.mac.games	3.85	0.79
11	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male	3.84	0.79
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.anime	3.81	0.79
13	alt.binaries.mac.applications	3.67	0.76
14	alt.sex.exhibitionism	3.67	0.76
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gymnast-girls	3.51	0.72
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage	3.45	0.71
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals	3.38	0.70
18	alt.sex.pictures	3.34	0.69
19	alt.binaries.pictures.girlfriend	3.33	0.69
20	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen	3.31	0.68

Top 20 newsgroups by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	misc.jobs.offered	3338	3.05
2	us.jobs.offered	2773	2.53
3	ba.jobs.offered	2176	1.99
4	biz.jobs.offered	1747	1.59
5	alt.jobs	1321	1.21
6	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	1183	1.08
7	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	1144	1.04
8	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	1142	1.04
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	1113	1.02
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	1066	0.97
11	comp.jobs.offered	1009	0.92
12	prg.jobs	910	0.83
13	misc.jobs.contract	910	0.83
14	news.newusers.questions	820	0.75
15	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.breasts	790	0.72
16	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	754	0.69
17	alt.sex.pictures	752	0.69
18	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	744	0.68
19	talk.politics.misc	732	0.67
20	alt.sex	723	0.66

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article size

Rank	Key	Size/day (Mb)	%age of total
1	alt	330.68	68.24
2	alt.binaries	236.95	48.89
3	alt.binaries.pictures	186.84	38.56
4	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	149.52	30.85
5	alt.sex	54.90	11.33
6	rec	48.12	9.93
7	comp	20.61	4.25
8	alt.fan	20.49	4.23
9	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur	16.26	3.36
10	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.blondes	14.72	3.04
11	alt.sex.fetish	13.49	2.78
12	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen	13.04	2.69
13	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female	12.72	2.63
14	alt.binaries.warez	11.70	2.41
15	alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc	11.46	2.36
16	misc	10.66	2.20
17	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female	10.29	2.12
18	rec.arts	9.08	1.87
19	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.teen.female	8.66	1.79
20	rec.games	7.77	1.60

Top 20 newsgroup hierarchies by article count

Rank	Key	Articles/day	%age of total
1	alt	156748	143.00
2	alt.binaries	65760	59.99
3	alt.sex	54045	49.30
4	alt.binaries.pictures	52796	48.16
5	alt.binaries.pictures.erotica	40413	36.87
6	rec	32882	30.00
7	comp	16909	15.43
8	misc	10963	10.00
9	alt.sex.fetish	10324	9.42
10	comp.sys	5791	5.28
11	rec.arts	5770	5.26
12	alt.fan	5692	5.19
13	soc	5463	4.98
14	misc.jobs	5154	4.70
15	us	4938	4.50
16	tw	4677	4.27
17	tw.bbs	4669	4.26
18	biz	4496	4.10
19	alt.politics	4483	4.09
20	us.jobs	4471	4.08

Average article size and count by day

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
1997/03/16	484.60	100.00			109616	100.00

Average article size and count by hour

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
00	19.33	3.99			5381	4.91
01	14.19	2.93			4573	4.17
02	5.81	1.20			1769	1.61
03	7.61	1.57			2403	2.19
04	9.52	1.97			2716	2.48
05	8.93	1.84			2589	2.36
06	9.47	1.95			2877	2.62
07	9.28	1.92			2773	2.53
08	10.56	2.18			2736	2.50
09	20.49	4.23			5376	4.90
10	20.83	4.30			5166	4.71
11	21.61	4.46			4433	4.04
12	21.57	4.45			5032	4.59
13	26.11	5.39			5408	4.93
14	29.18	6.02			6044	5.51
15	31.59	6.52			6006	5.48
16	25.01	5.16			5036	4.59
17	26.79	5.53			5927	5.41
18	30.41	6.27			6025	5.50
19	20.83	4.30			5232	4.77
20	32.23	6.65			5701	5.20
21	28.86	5.96			5667	5.17
22	32.18	6.64			5709	5.21
23	22.22	4.59			5037	4.60

Average article size and count by weekday

Key	Size (Mb)	%age of total		Relative size	# Articles	%age of total		Relative count
Sunday	484.60	100.00			109616	100.00